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For thus said the Lord of hosts after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you: Truly, one who touches you touches the apple of my eye.[a](A)

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  1. 2.8 Heb his eye

10 He sustained[a] him in a desert land,
    in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
    guarded him as the apple of his eye.(A)

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  1. 32.10 Sam Gk Compare Tg: MT found

Guard me as the apple of the eye;
    hide me in the shadow of your wings,(A)

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40 And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’(A)

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For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

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21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.(A) 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.(B) 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.(C)

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26 But the Advocate,[a] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have said to you.(A)

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  1. 14.26 Or Helper or Comforter

Edom Mistreated His Brother

10 For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    and you shall be cut off forever.(A)
11 On the day that you stood aside,
    on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you, too, were one of them.(B)
12 But you should not have gloated over[a] your brother
    on the day of his misfortune;
you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah
    on the day of their ruin;
you should not have boasted
    on the day of distress.(C)
13 You should not have entered the gate of my people
    on the day of their calamity;
you should not have joined in the gloating over Judah’s[b] disaster
    on the day of his calamity;
you should not have stolen his goods
    on the day of his calamity.(D)
14 You should not have stood at the crossings
    to cut off his fugitives;
you should not have handed over his survivors
    on the day of distress.

15 For the day of the Lord is near against all the nations.
As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.(E)
16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
    all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and gulp down[c]
    and shall be as though they had never been.(F)

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  1. 12 Heb on the day of
  2. 13 Heb his
  3. 16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land(A) and cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes and sold girls for wine and drunk it down.(B)

What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads swiftly and speedily.(C) For you have taken my silver and my gold and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.[a] You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border. But now I will rouse them to leave the places to which you have sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads.(D) I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.(E)

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  1. 3.5 Or palaces

14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.

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God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.(A) 10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.(B)

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The Coming Messenger

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.(A)

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Because you have plundered many nations,
    all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you—
because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who live in them.(A)

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10 Then my enemies[a] will see,
    and shame will cover those[b] who said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will see their[c] downfall;[d]
    now they[e] will be trodden down
    like the mire of the streets.(A)

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  1. 7.10 Heb enemy
  2. 7.10 Heb she
  3. 7.10 Heb her
  4. 7.10 Heb lacks downfall
  5. 7.10 Heb she

They shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword
    and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword;[a]
they[b] shall rescue us from the Assyrians
    if they come into our land
    or tread within our border.(A)

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  1. 5.6 Cn: Heb in its entrances
  2. 5.6 Heb he

11 Now many nations
    are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be profaned,
    and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”(A)

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13 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of the Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead
    in order to enlarge their territory.(A)

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  1. 1.13 Heb cause it to return

11 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because he pursued his brother with the sword
    and cast off all pity;
he maintained his anger perpetually[b]
    and kept his wrath[c] forever.(A)

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  1. 1.11 Heb cause it to return
  2. 1.11 Syr Vg: Heb and his anger tore perpetually
  3. 1.11 Gk Syr Vg: Heb and his wrath kept

Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Tyre,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they delivered entire communities over to Edom
    and did not remember the covenant of kinship.(A)

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  1. 1.9 Heb cause it to return

Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Damascus,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.(A)
So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.(B)
I will break the gate bars of Damascus
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven
and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden,
    and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir,
            says the Lord.(C)

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  1. 1.3 Heb cause it to return

Because you cherished an ancient enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,(A)

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Mortal, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem,

“Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples;
    it has swung open to me;
I shall be replenished,
    now that it is wasted,”(A)

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Proclamation against Philistia

15 Thus says the Lord God: Because with unending hostilities the Philistines acted in vengeance and with malice of heart took revenge in destruction,(A)

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Proclamation against Edom

12 Thus says the Lord God: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance upon them,(A)

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For thus says the Lord God: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within you against the land of Israel,(A) therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.(B)

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